In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 22 Jul 2004 20:38:49 -0400, "John E. Malmberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
I've yet to be able to build 5.8.4 on my VAX (VMS 7.2, DEC C 6.2-003, anyone been able to build on that combination?), but I'll try it out on the Alphas I have access to when I got a little more time.
DEC C V6.4-005 is the current C compiler.
Perl 5.8.4 will build on VAX 7.3, but IIRC will only pass about 68% of the tests. It looks like a lot of the problems are in multi-byte character support.
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wb8tyw> I do not know enough about Perl programming to make those wb8tyw> changes myself.
Hmm, if I'm gonna get involved at a deeper level, it will take some monetary contribution. I currently live on bare minimums (the consulting business is harsch right now), so I only spend time on my needs...
I have a work-a-round, a hacked version of a different .pm file and changing a logical name for the perl libraries to find it before it finds the Perl ones.
My main motivation is that I am trying to find time to build Mozilla from sources, and discovered that a hacked version of Perl was previously needed. I have not yet had time to try to build GTK+ with Perl 5.8.4.
I have also started working again on getting rsync to run on OpenVMS. It requires replacing a few fork()ing things with some threads. At this point I have a barely functional client that can pull down the daily rsync updates.
Cheers, Richard
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Hope the consulting business picks up over there.
-John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal Opinion Only
